The article examines the journalistic works of I. Shraha, which were published in the democratic media of the early twentieth century, in particular in the Odessa magazine «Southern Notes» and the central newspaper - «Kiev Thought». The methodological basis of the publication were the basic principles of personal history, system, integrity, logic, consistency, anthropocentrism. The research tools were universal methods of scientific analysis and synthesis, generalization, content analysis, methods of induction and deduction, problem-chronological, historical-genetic and comparative-historical methods. The scientific novelty of the work is that for the first time in modern historiography a qualitatively new corpus of primary sources on the history of the Zemstvo liberal movement in the north of the Left Bank of Ukraine (60-80’s of the 21st century) is introduced into international scientific circulation. In addition, the article analyzes the publication of the son of a prominent figure - M. Shraha, devoted to a similar topic, which is first introduced into international scientific circulation and allows to compare the positions of father and son Shraha and trace the political heritage of different generations of Ukrainian intellectuals. As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that the journalistic works of I. Shraha found and introduced into international scientific circulation are an important primary source on the history of the Zemstvo liberal movement in the north of the Left Bank of Ukraine. The content analysis of monuments, in particular the author's articles published in the Odessa magazine «Southern Notes», convincingly proves that the problem of the «Ukrainian question» in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 21st century. occupied a proper place in the system of worldviews, coordinates and programs of the opposition aristocratic front of northern Ukraine. Ilia Ludvigovich's public personal interview with the Kyivskaya Mysl newspaper can be considered a real source of treasure for researchers of the liberation movement in the Russian Empire in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, created according to all canons of historical constitutional movement in the Russian Empire 70-80’s of the 21st century. The analysis of the publication of I. Shrag's son - M. Shrag shows that between the father and the son Shrag there was a genetic political heredity of positions, which was manifested including at the level of historical views

I. Shrag, Zemsky Liberal Party, northern Ukraine, Zemsky constitutional movement, author's articles, M. Shrag